golden scales

The two feuds were as deep as the sea, and the sworn teams finally stood firm.

The horses snorted and spewed clouds of thick fog.

Zhu Cilang was riding on the horse, and he could clearly see Li Zicheng's appearance, as well as his signature wide-brimmed bamboo hat.

Li Zicheng squinted his only remaining eye, and looked at Prince Zhu Ming who had not yet grown a beard.He knew that the other party was young, but he didn't expect to be so young.

"Li Zicheng," Zhu Cihong shouted, "I thought you would come out wearing a dragon robe."

Li Zicheng didn't expect Zhu Cihong to speak to him in such a tone, he was quite disappointed.He originally wanted to see the furious appearance of the Chongling prince, and maybe he would send a few provocative words to his mouth.

——But right now, it’s no different from sending it to your mouth.

A smile appeared on Li Zicheng's face, and he was about to speak when he heard Prince Zhu's voice coming from the cold wind again.

"You also know that you will be struck by lightning if you don't presume to become the emperor, so you dare not come out in your fake dragon robe." Zhu Cihong said cheerfully, as if he was the one with the most soldiers.

The smile on Li Zicheng's face was replaced by anger, and he said coldly: "It seems that you can play tricks! Don't you know that the general trend is in your hands! Now obediently dismount and surrender, and you can also be named King of Song, and let you give you money every year! The ancestors of the family burn incense and offer offerings, otherwise, your family will be regarded as unprecedented!"

"If you surrender now, I can go up to the Son of Heaven and give you a whole corpse." Zhu Cilang smiled and waved his hands: "There is a time to talk about gossip. It is warmer in my tent. If you mean what you say, we will kill you." Change it."

Liu Zongmin, who was dressed in civilian clothes, came out from the left and right.

Liu Zongmin was escorted to the front of the battle. Seeing Li Zicheng in front of him, he was so ashamed that he lowered his head.The left and right Eastern Palace guards held his hair in a bun and forcibly exposed Liu Zongmin's face in front of Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng was furious when he saw it, and thought to himself: In this way, even if Zong Min returns, it will be difficult to command the army, alas.Forget it, seeing that the world is about to be obtained, he can also be a wealthy idler with peace of mind.

Seeing that Liu Zongmin was safe, Li Zicheng beckoned, signaling his subordinates to bring You Shiwei and others with him.

Zhu Cihong didn't know these veterans, so he sent several soldiers from Yulin Guard to identify them.After confirming that he was a veteran of the country, Zhu Cihong signaled both sides to step forward.

Xiao Mo was most nervous at this moment, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, will Bandit Li not let you go back on his word at this time?"

Zhu Cihong pursed her lips.

According to the agreement, when exchanging prisoners, the two sides can only send five soldiers without weapons.According to this agreement, Li Zicheng would actually suffer a bit.After all, You Shiwei and the others are veterans, and once they are freed from the shackles, their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.However, Li Zicheng thought that with a large army behind him, Prince Zhu would not dare to breach the contract, and he didn't mind suffering such a small loss during the exchange.

Zhu Cihong was actually very nervous, and picked up the binoculars to look at Li Zicheng's formation.

The horsemen over there arched their backs, their unsheathed long knives hanging on their sides.

"They are about to charge." Zhu Cihong said.

Xiao Mo put his hand on the saber, sweating profusely.

The soldiers exchanging prisoners in the middle had already untied the ropes on all sides, and the two trespassing soldiers helped Liu Zongmin and rushed towards the main formation quickly.

"The people who are going to pick us up come back." Zhu Cilang said calmly.

A team of riders led ten horses with saddles, and they rushed to meet You Shiwei and other five people, as well as the five soldiers who exchanged hostages.

Li Zicheng finally couldn't help laughing, everything went so smoothly, that Prince Zhu is really a pig!

"Go!"

Li Zicheng and Zhu Cihong shouted at the same time.

Li Zicheng's cavalry neighed in unison, and rushed to the ice under the sound of whips.

On Zhu Cihong's side, there were only the five pawns, a throwing knife slipped from his sleeve, and flew towards Liu Zongmin and the others.In a blink of an eye, the cavalry soldiers who responded to them also rushed to You Shiwei and the others, asking them to mount their horses calmly.

You Shiwei and other veterans burst into tears, but their skills were as vigorous as a young man's. They got on their horses like flowing clouds and flowing water, and galloped towards Zhu Cihong.

"Bows and arrows! Get ready~shoot!" Xiao Mo watched Li Chuang's cavalry enter the range of the archers, and ordered loudly.

Zhu Cihong turned his head and said, "Actually, we can put in some more. Look, our people are back."

With the sound of arrows piercing the air, You Shiwei and others rushed to Zhu Cihong.Among them, Huixian is the deputy general of Yansui, and the others are Liju veterans, but You Shiwei is still at the forefront.You Shiwei didn't have time to get off the horse, so he bowed on the horse's back and said anxiously: "Your Highness, hurry up! Let the last general be the queen!"

"Are you going to seize my military power as soon as you come?" Zhu Cihong joked, and immediately said seriously: "Listen to the order!"

"The end is here!" You Shiwei responded subconsciously.

"You Shiwei, Li Changling, Wang Shiqin, Wang Shiguo, Huixian." Zhu Cihong quickly reported their names: "Stay with me and see how Li Chuang dies."

The generals were stunned for a moment, their hearts beating abnormally, and they thought to themselves: Has Your Highness lost his mind and gone crazy?

"It's almost there." Zhu Cihong picked up the binoculars again: "General You, Rang Rang, you are blocking me."

You Shiwei stepped aside numbly, feeling relieved of the burden in his heart, thinking: it is also a blessing in life to have the chance to die in battle.He turned his head, just in time to see the bandit's cavalry avoiding the fallen riders and surrounding Liu Zongmin.Judging from their eagerness to get off their horses, it seemed that Liu Zongmin was injured.

"Look, we're separated." The corner of Zhu Cihong's mouth raised an arc.

You Shiwei thought to himself: So what if we separate?Why didn't even build fortifications on the river, just let the intruders' cavalry get out of the way easily.

"Boom!" Zhu Cihong suddenly made a strange voice.

You Shiwei looked at the crown prince, and just had a doubtful thought in his mind, and saw the sound of explosions like beans bursting on the ice surface where the camping horse team ran past, and the whole ice surface trembled.

"The ice is cracked!" The trespasser and horse soldier were terrified, seeing the cracks in the ice beneath their feet.

"return to!"

shouted the horsemen, turning their horses' heads.The horse soldiers behind hadn't figured out what was going on, and they didn't dare to turn around at will.The three walls in Li Guo's battalion are famous all over the world, not only because of their strong charge, but also because of their military discipline.Whenever the front team fled, the rear team could kill them.The rear team fled, and the captain who was further behind beheaded.Therefore, it is better to die than to retreat, maybe you can find a way to survive.

However, the scene of the ice cracking of the Yellow River in front of them is far more frightening and frightening than any enemy with a knife or gun.

After a short pause, the explosion sounded again, more intense than before.

"Now we can retreat to the shore." Zhu Cihong looked at the breaking points one after another on the ice, and was very satisfied with the work of Xiao Tugeng and Chen De.

The front team of the Eastern Palace Guard Battalion turned and retreated in an orderly manner, without paying attention to Li Chuang at all.

Li Zicheng was furious. While yelling and cursing, he ordered the pursuit, and at the same time, he ordered Zhongquan's personal guards to rush to shoot arrows from the front where there was no explosion point.They didn't realize that the ice surface where the Eastern Palace guard camp was temporarily settling was covered with large patches of blood red.It was freshly sprinkled pig's blood, which was particularly eye-catching on the snow-white ice.

"put!"

Zhongquan's personal guards rode on horseback, bent their bows and shot.

"boom!"

The Franco artillery roared.

This piece of ice stained red with pig's blood was the landing point of the artillery.

The iron ball fell from the sky, hit the solid ice hard, bounced a horse's head high, flew out, and took the lives of five or six riders in an instant. All of them were half-destroyed and could not be recovered. dead body.

"Let go!" Xiao Mo commanded the guard camp of the East Palace, and released another round of arrow rain, and dozens of people fell from their horses.

You Shiwei was stunned by the sudden counterattack, he opened his mouth slightly, and was about to ask the crown prince, when the ice on the river surface made a louder noise.A huge piece of river ice was stepped up by the people and horses on it, and the surrounding ice layers were broken into pieces, like ice floods in spring.

Hundreds of men and horses were swallowed into the water, howling endlessly.Because they were wearing cotton clothes, even the wailing sound soon subsided, leaving only the huge ice floes, bumping around in a daze.

"The Dragon King is angry! The Dragon King is angry!" Someone in the camp yelled, his captain looked at him in horror, but he didn't execute the military law to cut off the man's head. (To be continued.)